"I FEEL YOU CLOSER" Painting

Stacey Warnix is an American lyrical abstractionist painter who uses gestural methods to create color-forward, large scale abstract paintings. Her practice explores the experiential affect of atmospheric color and scale, employing disparate materials and dimensional layering to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of gestural fields of color.

Introduced young to representational oil painting by an artist grandmother, Stacey was an active creator through her formative years, but ultimately pursued a career in law and finance, working in California and London before moving to Texas, where she started painting again. Struggling with autoimmune disease, infertility, and miscarriages, Stacey experimented with gestural abstraction and became enamored with the process as a meditative escape, finding respite in the abstract forms, textures, and tones – and a means to quietly process the isolation and sorrow.

Stacey builds color with extensive layering of transparent washes and inks, yielding nuanced color and nonfigurative form. Palette selections reference time-worn, hazy memories of light-filled vistas along the California coastline, Europe, and the Texas Hill Country – the places that shaped her. Over nearly 10 years of painting with renewed purpose and appreciation, Stacey’s paintings evoke the emotional, hazy residue of remembered spaces, offering sentimental moments for pause, reflection, and quiet emotional connection.